Common Core Geometry

This #made4math project is a little out of the ordinary compared to the other crafty projects that I've done.  But, out of all the projects that I've done this was is the most useful to my classroom thus far.

Last Friday, I went to school to work for a couple of hours.  Seven hours later (yep you read that write) I left exhausted, but feeling accomplished.  Initially I spent time setting up my Promethean Board, which I had no experience with as it was installed last October.  Unfortunately, there were some issues that took a little while to deal with (and are still not completely fixed).  But, the better part of my day was spent organizing the  Common Core State Standards for geometry.

I started by cutting apart the standards and then trying to shuffle them around on a desk.  I found this difficult to track as a whole course and changed to organizing the units on the whiteboard that spans about 16 feet on my back wall.  Ultimately I ended up with 10 units, but have since changed this to 11 units.

I should state that this is a process that I went through  last summer as well.  For whatever reason, the results that I ended up with then didn't feel "right", so I set them aside and went on teaching with just a few deviations from my usually path.

So after several hours of thinking, writing, interpreting, and erasing, here's what I developed.

Unit 1:  Review, Introduction of geometry terminology & notation
     Standards:  CO.1, CO.9, CO.10, GPE.5, GPE.7, MG.1

Unit 2:  Rigid Transformations
     Standards:  CO.2, CO.3, CO.4, CO.5, CO.6

Unit 3:  Congruence and Triangles
     Standards:  CO.6, CO.7, CO.8, CO.9, CO.10, CO.12, GPE.4

Unit 4:  Triangle Centers
     Standards:  CO.10, CO.13, C.2, C.3
*I hope to introduce the relationships between inscribed and central angles, and possibly touch on angles created by two tangent lines to a circle.  (present when constructing perpendicular and angle bisectors)  My goal is to make those angle measure relationships  easier to remember when all the other angle and chord "rules" are added when we discuss circles.

Unit 5:  Quadrilaterals
     Standards:  CO.11, GPE.4

Unit 6:  Circles
     Standards:  GPE.1, GPE.4, C.2, C.4

Unit 7:  Similarity
     Standards:  SRT.1, SRT.2, SRT.3, C.1, C.5

Unit 8:   Proofs & Similarity
     Standards:  SRT.4, SRT.5, CO.10, GPE.4


Unit 9:  Trigonometry
     Standards:  SRT.6, SRT.7, SRT.8, SRT.9, SRT.10, SRT.11


Unit 10:  Solid Geometry
     Standards:  GMD.1, GMD.3, GMD.4, MG.1, MG.2, MG.3


Unit 11:  Prob & Stats
     Standards:  CP.1-CP.9, MD.6, MD.7


For the most part these units follow the lead given in Appendix A to the CCSS, but I feel that these are in groups that I think will make teachable groups.  


Now for the more time-consuming task of making up lessons, objectives for standards based grading, quizzes, tests, etc.